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by Eva Hoffman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eva HoffmanPublish date:2007-10-09Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781586485245ISBN-10:1586485245UPC:9781586485245Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Jewish, Eastern EuropeSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCGYJE9GKQ
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Brafsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence -- still relevant to us today -- attempted in the eight centuries of Polish-Jewish history, and describes the forces which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to conceal or betray their Jewish neighbors in the dark period of the Holocaust.
Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781586485245ISBN-10:1586485245UPC:9781586485245Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Jewish, Eastern EuropeSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCGYJE9GKQ
Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland, and emigrated to Canada at the age of thirteen. She is the author of three highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, Lost in Translation, Exit into History, and Shtetl, and one novel, The Secret. She divides her time between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a visiting professor at MIT.
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